Red Cross Aid Convoy Arrives In Devastated Syrian City

After weeks of shelling and sniper fire from Syrian Army forces, the people who remain in the Baba Amr district of the city of Homs may finally get some aid from the outside world today.

Reuters reports that a Red Cross convoy is now in Homs and is preparing to enter Baba Amr. Before today, the Syrian government had blocked any such assistance during its crackdown on those who have been protesting against the regime of President Bashar Assad — a crackdown that the U.N. estimates has left more than 7,500 people dead.

-- The Associated Press reports that "two French journalists who were trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Homs were on Thursday evacuated to Lebanon, where the French government was preparing to fly them home."